Craftsy Free Block of the Month video tutorials

Have you heard of Craftsy? Craftsy is a new site online with courses in all kinds of craftsy fun – sewing, knitting, quilting, even making hand dipped chocolates! The classes are taught in video courses that you can access at your own pace and schedule. Other benefits include being able to ask your instructor questions and get personalized responses and bookmark your favorite moments in the video. You can even take notes right under the video to refer back to. You can sign up for a free account at Craftsy.com and poke around the site for any classes you might be interested in. Most of the classes have a class fee.

For all you visual learners, this is the place for you.

Today I’d like to share a little bit about the FREE Block of the Month video courses taught by Amy. (I met Amy at the Sewing Summit and she was absolutely lovely. I can think of few people I’d enjoy watching more than Amy.)

Each month Amy will teach how to make two different blocks in a 30 minute video. Each block teaches a very different quilting technique to add to your repertoire. Towards the end of the year she will teach techniques like adding borders, quilting and binding. Did I mention it’s all free? There are already over 53,000 people signed up from all over the world for this course. wow.

You can watch a preview video here, but you need to click Sign-Up to see the full video tutorials, access the message boards, etc. I think that this is such a brilliant idea. All of us learn techniques differently and for many a video tutorial is the most effective way to learn. I love that this option is now available and put together so well.

In honor of the Craftsy Block of the Month Blog Tour, The Fat Quarter Shop is giving away a $25 gift certificate to one of you readers. Oh the possibilities. Maybe some of that Flea Market Fancy that just came out?? To enter, leave a comment on this post. Giveaway will close on Friday, March 16 at midnight MST. GIVEAWAY CLOSED

And there are other opportunities to enter for additional gift certificates. Visit any of the stops on this Blog Tour (that are still open) and you can enter to win again!Feb 24 –Miss Print

This is my first BOM and so far I totally love it! Amy is a great teacher and the videos go really well with the written instructions for each block. I totally recommend joining in no matter what level of sewing you are at!

I signed up for the class last month and am having so much fun. As a beginning quilt-a-holic (I just started making quilts last September) I am learning so much about all of the possibilities I have with fabric.<br />Thanks for putting the class out there, I have learned a lot, and I&#39;m sure anyone else could learn from it too.<br />Em

I&#39;ve watched the first couple of videos, but haven&#39;t made any blocks yet. I love the efficiency of chain piecing and cutting strips, so sampler style doesn&#39;t appeal to me most of the time. However, I may eat my words and join in at some point anyway!

I&#39;m still pacing myself. I&#39;ve done the first BOM for March, and I&#39;ll do the second one in the next few days. I decided not to rush and do them both on the 1st, since March is a long month! Lol.

Oh, I could find so many things at FQS to spend a gift certificate on!<br />I am enrolled in this class, but haven&#39;t made any of the blocks yet. Life keeps getting in the way (migraines, storms, cleaning, etc.)

I signed up for this course! Of course, I am behind—-I am new to finding all of the QALs and such–and as a result, have joined too many! LOL<br /><br />I was hoping to get some of that Flea Market Fancy, but my favorite prints are gone already! Not to worry, my wishlist is still very long!

I am curious what these blocks would look like in a full quilt. I&#39;m having a hard time liking the zig-zag one, but am with-holding final opinion till I try it. I am interested to see how these all look in different fabric choices and layouts. I hope craftsy has a plan for a &quot;show and tell&quot; area (:

I joined the Craftsy BoM and I&#39;m loving it! Its great to try new blocks and the videos make it really easy! I&#39;m thinking my finished quilt will make a great picnic blanket!<br /><br />Thanks for the giveaway 🙂

Loving the blog tour, Amy and Craftsy. You are right, the video lessons are the perfect way for us visual learners. hehe. <br /><br />Thank you and FQS for an awesome giveaway and a chance to win.<br /><br />usairdoll(at)gmail(dot)com

Thanks for the chance to win a little spending money! I need more fabric like I need a hole in the head but oh well! We quilters can never truly have enough fabric now can we? I have been dying to get my fingers on some Flea Market Fancy fabric! I just love her fabrics.<br /><br />The craftsy site sounds like a great idea. I&#39;ll have to check it out, being a visual learner myself.

The block of the month videos sound interesting. I have never tried to learn a block by video. Will make sure I check it out during some much needed me-time.<br /><br />Thanks for the opportunity to win the gift card. I already have my fabric picked out. 🙂

I&#39;m one of the 53,000 doing Craftsy&#39;s BOM and loving it. <br />I blog about the blocks as well at the beginning/end of every month on my blog <br />http://handmadebyclairebear.com/tag/craftsys-block-of-the-month/<br /><br />Being able to watch Amy demonstrate the techniques makes it so easy. <br /><br />Thanks for the chance to win the gift card.<br />ClaireBear

I just have to say, Amy, that you are great. I love your pins (on pinterest) 🙂 You probably don&#39;t remember but I &quot;met&quot; you a way back….I am Sarah Jane&#39;s cousin (I love all the work you&#39;ve done for her) and you gave me some advice about fabric a while back! I still want to make it to your quilt shop. And now I love that you know this Amy bcse we went to high school

I signed up for the Craftsy BOM, and I&#39;ve been following along, watching the vids, etc. Although I love the concept and plan to do the quilt, I can&#39;t get into it without seeing what the final quilt is supposed to look like. How can you plan a quilt color scheme without having the final picture in mind so you can coordinate your colors appropriately for the blocks?

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